Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later.
We've got this error hours ago: "Connection Problems
Sorry, SMF was unable to connect to the database. This may be caused by the server being busy. Please try again later. "
Yes. Then we got the advice to check the database credentials in
Settings.php and we did it. So now the forums are working well.
If you want to know more -- more explanations. In case you don't know about Settings.php and how to check it. The answer is that it is in your forum root. It contains the information your forum needs to connect to the database. An example here:
########## Database Info ##########
$db_type = 'mysql';
$db_server = 'xxxxxxxxx';
$db_name = 'xxxxxxxxx';
$db_user = 'xxxxxxxxx';
$db_passwd = 'xxxxxxxx';
$ssi_db_user = '';
$ssi_db_passwd = '';
$db_prefix = 'smf_';
$db_persist = 0;
$db_error_send = 0;
You can view it and you can modify it with the right parameters, if you know how.
In our case, the problem was a wrong (changed) password, because we weren't careful enough the day before yesterday.
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